THE COST OF LIVING i I$ THE CRUX OF THE RECIPRO- CITY QUESTION. i Iw. Aykroyd Shows That the Con-| samer Will Benefit Just as Well as the Farmer. Kingston; Sept. 14--(To the Edi- toty ~4 am convinced that the pending election for the Dominion House of Commons, will He decided on the econ- | omies of reciprocity, and not on ils political aspect. If the pact is defeated | it will not be because of the fear of | it leading to apuexation nor on ac | count of any disloyally ery oo the | part of the opposition, nor the foolish statement of some thoughtless antis that we want no trade mor truck with | the Yankees, when we gre already rad ing with them to the extent of hun- dreds of millions of dollars. When we i in Ontario are burning their hard coal | to keep us warm in winter, why | shouldn't they have some of ani- | toba's hard wheat to make their bread | more palatable. i Aren't all modern society, and the | comforts and conveniences of civiliza- | tion dependent largely on the fair ex- | change of natural products throughout | the world irrespective of any political | lines or boundaries ? And is not the | United States our most eonvenient!and natural market for much of the natur- | al products of our more northern clim- | ate, while we are their most conver ent and natural market for the gro- ducts of their southern climate ? By | trading freely with them in natural | products we will get the Denefit of a' much longer season of production of the good things of old mother earth. | Fresh fruit and vegetables far some months in the year when they are not grown in Canada, Even when they are grown we may have a shortage while they have a surplus, and Vice versa. Thus there will be a more even bmlancing of trade, and prices through: out the vear and from year to year, and a mutual benefit to all. The un evenness of prices, some times igh and sometimes low, is not a good thing for consumer or producer either. They never know what to figure on; the con sumer, how mueh to buy at a given time or price, nor fhe produce how much to produce, Reciprocity would eliminate a lot of these things and make a far better balanced market. ------ How Consumer Benefits. I'he cost of living is the crux of the question for the consumers, and es pecially the wage earners, working: men, ete, in the cities, to consider, They may say and are saying, "Rec provity may be a good thing for the wrmers, but 1 am wot a farmer, If the farmer gets more for his products. 1 will have to pay more and up goes the cost of living, which is already high. 1 enmmot vote for the pact." lis fears on the score of higher cost of living is not well founded, and even if they were there will be compensat- ting gains under reciprocity. let us see. It. sounds. paradoxical to say that the producer may get more for his product under reciprocity and the consumer pay less, but, nevertheless, that is what will take place with many kinds of produce when the pact is in force. This needs explana- won. The difference between what the far- mer gets for his raw product and what the consumer pays for the finishe ed product, is very great for many products, and for a large portion of the year. Meats of all kinds, eggs, poultry, canned goods, fruits and vegetables, A producer may sell a product to a middleman, a combine, of a monopoly for 40c,, and the consumer pay 100 cents for it. It has been estimated by competent sta tisticiaus and economists in the Uni: ted States that this is about the average difference. Here is a loss of sixty cents on a dollar trade hetween the producer and consumer Who gets it ?- What is the cause of it? The middleman and the combio- sters get it. The cause is largely due to the restriction of trade. The duty on the exchange ol natural products is the direst eause of part of it, but this duty inditeetly ls the greater enuse by giving the combinsters and a market for the remaining 300,000, middlemen a chance tosfleece hoth the 000 bushels, more or less, we al producer and consumer. Middlemen most certain we have for export " must have n fair profit for exchanging | ---- products, but their profits under pro tection, so oalled, are often exorbi tant. Free trade would eliminate some | of the parasites, and reduce the pro- fits of the necessary exchangers to a reasonable amount. ; Suppose we save by reciprocity Imlf proportion to the rap of sixty centa diierence in prices, and population, until now this seems quite probable then' the importing basis. It is doubtful wheth producer would receive fifteen cents er. they will have enough wheat for more and the consumer pay fifteen home comsumption this year. Besides cents less, and both be benefited, | their exports of all Kinds of food Again, the farmer may not get products have nearly ceased. This is more money than be does now for an'absolutely true of cheese awd butter individual product, say a bag of po- Thus you may see that not only the jatost. but if he has a larger mar products of the western farmer, .. but ket Br potatoed™ he will raise nove (hose of our eastern furmer as well bags of potatoes and thus make more! money. wery usiness man knows | | | for for greater argument recipro- markets, history of the whose pro- n= to The strongest city need At time in world was there a duction of natural products creasing in such great proportion its population Canada to-day This is due to The iw the no the country wits 8 in several causes of our great west, due to unprecedent ed railway development, and the in modern mi inery 'in the the threshing machines, and by which as ten wroduction of of steam plows, ete, : 1 \ cultivation spoil, gasoline 211 one man could cannot racv esters, ean do as much do a few years ago X find a market for this rapidly creaming production of surplus ducts over home consumption our expansion and great of which we are all so justly will be impeded, there will b production and we will be confronted with the spectacle of elevators full of grain, and warehouses overflowing with goods, for which there is no wale, followed by stagnation and hard times. Then some people will wonder what is the mmiter, but it will never enter their noddles that they did not vogf cor Those who argue 'against on tHe point say have the Eng- lish market, and we have our home market which is ont hest markel Granted this is true The - English market #8 limited, and ou? home mars ket, especially for grain, is becom- ing rapidly inadequate to absorb nny- thing but a small fraction of our pro= duétion. : The imports of food stufis info the English market are shout the 'as they were ten years ago population is not large @ough to ab sorb the food products pouring into that market Last year ported the equivalent in wheat flour only 193,000,000 bushels, had to come in competition that market with Russia, the largest shipper, India, Argentina, Austra¥a, New Zealand, and: the United States Canada, this year, has more than 200,000,000 bushels of wheat, seven million bushels more than England imported from all the countries the world including ( rear It estimated that vears we will produce at least 000,000 to 100 000.000 hushels wheat It takes Tor food about seven bushels per head of popu lation for home use. Suppose have 18,000000 people iu five years, that would only take 70,000,000 bush els for home use Where will we find in "Pre then progress, proud, over it is because reciproeit reciprocity we mame Their and and we m of last five 306). of secd anada, is in and we are Less Wheat in States. The production of wheat in the Unit States, as is well known to all {who give this question of wheat any attention, rapidly decreasing in id increase of an It) they are on rapid opening wp of the fertile lands | Fagland im- | HE LOST FIRST ONE OPPORTUNITY AND {will find a ready market in the United reciprocity, It to know and 1909, and mmported for will be a that States under in the United then many Jon wurprise to thiseal vear the States bow ht town use from the United Kingdom, $2, 750.000 00 of is not {this 4 market we should cultivate when worth potatoes Some are tuke he we have the opportumily but the Yankes products isaymg, ves, the dut oft when | Og | ) | asking or he to $0 withoul our Very waoilld not wants well, fair espe ally, the coun without bmi ht, Con an agreement but that i mers in the cities, {if we did not take the duties Inatural products produced in be Our off his itrv. Then the cost of living might go | out proportior to 10 fup of wll [the urban gained our Lei like advantages not that, population. mistake this fair trial, and do clause which we can make it make but id give it a forget that wrresment any rat OW not serted in the agreement changes we Wj | | | any 1m it any time aur parliament is in gession without any referenee to the United St ates High Cost of Living. The high cost of Living not the United States and Canada, but | only in in European countries as well is gssuming serious aspects, There omie reasons for it. Jt is quite evident that" those eolifitries with high tariff 'walls on foodstuffs suffer most he consumer niwavs pay the duty, even on the home grown product, be- caitse the price is regulated by what he would have to pay for the same ax j ticle if imported ih & HRDOrter {combines are several econ- has to under pro get in fi duty and monopolies, tection, ag 1 have pointed ont [their work, is added they cent to their profits, until companies, the Davies Limited, who do business in this , CAD. pay avery Lime gu « alld two more i like jeity in meat a dividend of {120 per cent. a vear Free trade in food Ireduce these exorbitant the consumer would get I'hen there is tor that only economy them, but it is great one, just {mous morense fgodd of recent vears has out of he money in circulation per « world now than before history, hence paid and 8 paid for of sumption. It does not matter whether the working man has this money not. He has to eome mito i with the man who has the { the purchase of 'his requirements products profits, nd the benelit another economic fac students of political recognize, and not dl of a factor, and very the the i production of i same the enor ot thrown balance re prices m ever t bie con more mone articles or competition mores, | This cannot reciprocity indirectly removing 1s something that touch directly, bat do much towards ble None of our sconomic perfect, aml our fina far from being scientific and just, The making of gold the standard of value and then ullowing unlimited quanti ties of it, to be thrown on the mar net, or as 'much of it as ean be pro duced, 8 a very crude harbarois system, and it looks to me as if we were in for serious fron ble ahead on aceount of this svetem. ihe enly way oan stave off a more evil day is by a wider distribu the trou systems Are ial svetems are and almost a we may | liked 5 TREE " . THEN THE OTHER J tion of this great gold production. of lwving is relative, and if give more money ta the peo- pay more for their ne- it an elementary fact, more evenly can wealth of a country the better for the people as a whole, Now we must do in Canada to get as much of that gold or édqnivalent 18 widely circulated possible. How better'ean we do te The cost we ple, coasitios The wider distribute can they can That and the we whit 4 its as this get good markets at good prices for the products of our our fisheries will help to and bring more As the great. er prog of ony population is en- ved in these pursuits the money will widely distributed, and gene- 1 nd the wheels of indus- increased and kept hum- 8 will vise and relatively, st of living will be lowered freedom and greater pros- AYKROYD farms, our fe and mi yreats, on teciproeit y secure these markets, money into our country ic he most rally try, spon will ming, Yours perity \ SAYS LAURIER WILL WIN. J. A. Stevenson, Winnipeg, Would Not Trust Empire to Bourassa. 19.4. A in the election field Stevenson, Nation, res He says London, Winnipeg, the write viewing hoped the terifi reformers beguile themselves into the be! for Borden will assisg! However, it is quite une will wid probably overament will regain! hy reciprocity it to be won't lief Hat their' eause ! Borden the Lax the same 18 Victory win ier strength as i | | wold § | i | | the Asquith government did b budget Ne the om. by the mn the body's works that enson concludes H the destinies are to be guided of men who organized National league soirit characterizing that nd publications better forthwith into liquidation pire's the tvpe Canadian t ef ned it go To Evangelize Continent. York City, Sept. 18.--Headed Pierpont Morgan and James G Na New by J Cannon, president of the Fourth sional bank, npinety-seven of ' New York's foremost millionaires and pro men will, to-night, inaugur a banquet at the Metropolitan ub known as the Fifth ionaire's club, a crusade to evangelize th? United States znd Canada. The meetings will be opened at Minneapolis on Oct. 2d, and continued the whole continent by men of the religi- fessional by avenue mill over ous forward movement, After Fifty Years' Service. Montreal, Sept. 18.~On Sept. . 30th, John W. Loudi freight traffic manager f the G.T.R. and G.T.P., will retire on a handsome superannuation allow- ance, after fifty years service. ihie family of Frank Kleine, of Milwaukee, was wiped out when their struck by the Jine killed suto was Soo fiyor. | one did later Gem-jar rings, corks, ull sizes; para-| fine wax. Meleod's Drug Stores, At Hendon, Eng.. Lieut. Gummell, of the British aviator school, was killed fall with an seroplane while | turning too quickly Wade's condition powders, two pack; aoew 2%. at Meleod's Drug. Stores, Our were instantly and by a that it is not by making a big pro fit on one article that he makes mon. ey but by a small profit on many articles. Thus you see the price to the home consamer of potatoes, or any other , teed not, and not at all likely "would be raised hy rei ciprocity, for the farmer would pro duce more, knowitig he had a market or hig produets at a fair profit the vear around. There is no question a bout the United States not wanting our farm products or they would not | have come to us al Ottawa with the position of refprocity. Because are willing to buy from us is no reason why we should "turn them 2 You have to find some ome Wages Will Rise. If there is more money coming inte our coun through freer trade re lations with our peighbors to the south of us, will that pot make our country more prosperous ? And if more prosperous, will that not bene "fit the w earner, the working man Will there not be et us set you right on the ceiling matter You are, perhaps, prejudiced in favor of plaster, for ceilings. That prejudice won't last long after you read our book about ceilings. For it shows you why you cannot really afford to buy any but Preston Steel Ceilings The book is aimed straight at those who have thought metal ceilings were too new an idea to be worth trying. Whether you are one of those or not, there is something in the book worth knowing. It shows you why a Preston Steel Ceiling is cheaper, far safer to sleep or work under, and vastly more beautiful to live with. Ask for the book, and outline your possible needs." The reply will interest you. Branch Office and Fact MONTREAL, QUE. 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